{"id":28137,"date":"2016-08-14T07:03:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T11:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=28137"},"modified":"2016-08-14T07:03:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T11:03:01","slug":"twenty-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/twenty-three\/","title":{"rendered":"TWENTY-THREE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Czes\u0142aw,<br \/>\nHard to believe it\u2019s been 12 years,<br \/>\nbut listen, hey, Happy Anniversary!<br \/>\nI wasn\u2019t sure about having this letter<br \/>\nprinted in The New York Times \u2014<br \/>\ndo you still subscribe? \u2014 but I didn\u2019t know<br \/>\nhow else to reach you. I notice<br \/>\nthe obits sometimes look more like<br \/>\nthe personal ads, with all their messages<br \/>\nto the departed. I suppose you probably<br \/>\nget the Times online \u2014 kind of crushes<br \/>\nmy picture of everyone sitting around<br \/>\nin Heaven with the paper open<br \/>\nin front of them \u2014 but you might<br \/>\nhave the same problem I do \u2014 no<br \/>\ndelivery to this address. Bummer, huh?<br \/>\nThey sell it at Starbucks, but maybe you<br \/>\ndon\u2019t have a Starbucks on every corner<br \/>\nor maybe you favor that nitro cold brew<br \/>\nor take your coffee the way they served it<br \/>\nat the Med. I miss the Med, don\u2019t you?<br \/>\nI really just wanted to let you know<br \/>\nI\u2019m thinking of you and I\u2019m glad for all<br \/>\nthat \u201cwas wild and indecent\u201d in you<br \/>\n\u2014 even if you\u2019re not!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 <a href=\"https:\/\/chocolateisaverb.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">j.i. kleinberg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Czes\u0142aw, Hard to believe it\u2019s been 12 years, but listen, hey, Happy Anniversary! I wasn\u2019t sure about having this letter printed in The New York Times \u2014 do you still subscribe? \u2014 but I didn\u2019t know how else to reach you. I notice the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1319,15],"class_list":["post-28137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-j-i-kleinberg","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28143,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28137\/revisions\/28143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}